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Sunday, February 21, 2016

The Kith & Kinzer misleading the American public

The Attack is meant to undermine plans for creating a safe zone for Syrian refugees north of Aleppo.

STEPHEN
KINZER: The media are misleading the public on Syria. True, but not as
Kinzer argues. If anything, it’s the Obama administration and people like
Kinzer who have been misleading the American and world public about the war in
Syria, and about the true price of abandoning the Syrian people and traditional
allies like Turkey and Saudi Arabia. For as problematic as these allies’
behavior has been both in general and in regard to the Syria War in particular,
it’s still far less problematic than the active campaign of ethnic and
sectarian cleansing being carried out by Iran and Russia, using the Assad
regime and Shia militias, and more recently pro-PKK Kurdish forces, as their
proxies and blunt instruments.

By taking over and cleansing the proposed buffer zone from Arab rebels, the Kurdish militias affiliated with the PYD hope to create a Kurdish statelet stretching from north Aleppo to the northeastern borders with Iraq

Moreover, the impact of the
Obama’s administration Syria policy can now be felt in other areas as well,
including eastern Ukraine, and South China Sea. For no amount of
rationalization on part of Kinzer and other “realists” can convince world
leaders, including America’s European allies, and not only its “lesser”
allies in the Middle East (for that’s how they are being treated at this
stage), not to mention its enemies, can change current perceptions and
attitudes regarding the Administration’s resolve. What this means in practice
is that many of America’s allies will think twice and thrice before following
America’s leadership on anything in the future, not only for the duration of
this administration’s time in office, but perhaps for a long while after that.
In the meantime, America’s enemies are bound to become far more aggressive than
they have been since the end of the Cold War. The realists won’t address that.
The realists are the biggest deceivers and liars of all, and have successfully
manipulated media coverage and popular attitudes to justify their disastrous
immoral policies. Painting themselves as people struggling against all sorts of
odds and pressures in order to get heard has been a tactic of theirs from the
beginning, a tactic to which they have resorted time and again in order to
deflect attention from the fact that they have been in the driver seat all
along, and that what’s currently unfolding in Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq,
Afghanistan and eastern Ukraine is in no small part the result of their
“strategic insights.”

Obama
vs. Self:America
Is Now Fighting A Proxy War With Itself In Syria. “Confusion in the Obama
administration’s Syria policy is playing out on the ground as U.S.-backed
groups begin battling each other.” But this is how the realists will
interpret this development:See, we told you it’s complicated, and it’s
a quagmire. This is what intervention gets you. We should have stayed out. We
have to pull out and let these people fight it amongst themselves, and when they
are ready for peace, we’ll be ready to help. This is of course the wrong
lesson to draw, but not if you’re a realist and your intent on inaction, and on
denying the reality of where a haphazard policy of minimal interventions here
and there has played in the hands of the Russians, the Iranians, the Islamic
State Jihadis, Kurdish PYD militias and the remnants of the Assad regime,
making things worse for most Syrians, and helping generate more refugees.

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Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian-American author and pro-democracy activist based in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is the founder of the Tharwa Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to democracy promotion. His personal website and entries from his older blogs can be accessed here.

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